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Post by quiltz on Aug 4, 2024 1:21:52 GMT
I am watching this show, To Catch a Smuggler on National Geographic TV station.
Amazing! and WOW!! what people will do to smuggle drugs, people, money & just stuff to avoid paying duty & taxes is amazing. Some very creative people out there.
Interesting at how dogs are using their sniffers to find money, drugs and food.
There used to be the show Border Security, but that has been cancelled due to issues of privacy.
Does anyone else watch this show?
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Post by christine58 on Aug 4, 2024 2:13:13 GMT
OMG I love that show. It amazes me the lengths that people will go to smuggle drugs into countries. The one that remains in my head is somebody who shipped some kind of tamales or something from Mexico to somewhere in the United States. And I’m thinking won’t they be rotten by the time they get there? There were no drugs in them, but they were being searched because it was food. There’s another one I watch too can’t remember the name of it.
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Post by nicolep on Aug 4, 2024 2:22:28 GMT
I've not watched that show but I love watching Contraband: Seized at the Border! They cover all of the bridges between Mexico and the US.
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Post by christine58 on Aug 4, 2024 2:26:55 GMT
I've not watched that show but I love watching Contraband: Seized at the Border! They cover all of the bridges between Mexico and the US. That’s the other one I watch! |
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Post by nicolep on Aug 4, 2024 2:43:35 GMT
I've not watched that show but I love watching Contraband: Seized at the Border! They cover all of the bridges between Mexico and the US. That’s the other one I watch! When I first started watching it I was absolutely appalled at how far the cartel goes to get narcotics across the border! |
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Post by quiltz on Aug 4, 2024 3:00:29 GMT
Isn't it simply amazing at how creative people will get to smuggle stuff and how productive they are at doing this.
Imagine if all of this energy would be directed towards something legal, our lives would be so different!
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Post by stampnscrap1128 on Aug 4, 2024 4:06:59 GMT
I really enjoy this show. I like how they cover different countries.
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Post by edie3 on Aug 4, 2024 4:19:08 GMT
It is very interesting! I am glad I had seen it before flying home from Florida one time. I had a small bag of sand from the beach in my purse! Of course they had to take it out and test it. But it was a small airport and they were very chill about it. I hate to think if it had been at a major airport!
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Post by Lexica on Aug 4, 2024 6:17:21 GMT
I love those shows! I will have to go look for the contraband show. Did you know they have these border shows in different countries as well, not just the states? I watched the one about Australia’s borders on Switch, I think?
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Post by smasonnc on Aug 4, 2024 11:39:11 GMT
Our daughter lives in Spain and when we come back from visiting her there are guards in the airport with little dogs walking around as we collect our bags. Looking for drugs? No. Iberian ham. Spain has a zillion kinds of cured ham and everybody tries to bring it back and it doesn't meet FDA requirements. They bust 2-3 of these "hardened criminals" every time.  |
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Post by quiltz on Aug 4, 2024 13:13:25 GMT
Looking for drugs? No. Iberian ham. Spain has a zillion kinds of cured ham and everybody tries to bring it back and it doesn't meet FDA requirements. They bust 2-3 of these "hardened criminals" every time. Some of the segments show the various agriculture products that *innocent* people try to bring home. It is funny how people try to use lack of English speaking skills to act ignorant. I think that everyone should pay the fine, ($300.) rather than just get a warning. Do the authorities track these people to see if they get multiple warnings? |
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Post by leeny on Aug 4, 2024 16:21:52 GMT
I am watching this show, To Catch a Smuggler on National Geographic TV station. Amazing! and WOW!! what people will do to smuggle drugs, people, money & just stuff to avoid paying duty & taxes is amazing. Some very creative people out there. Interesting at how dogs are using their sniffers to find money, drugs and food. There used to be the show Border Security, but that has been cancelled due to issues of privacy. Does anyone else watch this show? We love these shows. By the way, Border Security is shown on regular YouTube by the channel DangerTV. My favorite was the Border Security where a supposed rocker had an electric guitar that kept setting off the detection. Staff drilled a hole in the guitar and sure enough there was cocaine in the resin in the guitar! Who would have thought? |
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Post by stormsts on Aug 4, 2024 18:02:40 GMT
I love that show! It amazes me what the dogs can be trained to sniff out.
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Post by RosieKat on Aug 4, 2024 18:10:03 GMT
Staff drilled a hole in the guitar and sure enough there was cocaine in the resin in the guitar! That is the kind of stuff that always blows my mind! (not the cocaine, the manner of smuggling, lol) I love these kinds of shows so much! Lexica, I think there's a version in Italy or somewhere, too. |
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Post by monklady123 on Aug 4, 2024 19:19:48 GMT
I've watched various border/airport videos on YouTube but I didn't realize it was an entire TV show(s)! I'll have to check them out. I especially like watching the ones with dogs, just because I love the working dogs. My personal encounter with one of the sniffer dogs was when dd and I were at JFK standing in the customs line, and suddenly here was this cute little beagle sitting at my feet. My first reaction was to say to dd "oh look, how cute!" hahaha Next thing I knew there was his handler right behind him. Apparently sitting like that is their cue to their handler that this person has some contraband.  Turns out that the beagles are the food detection dogs. Dd and I had brought some oranges onto the plane in Paris and fortunately had eaten them on the plane. But the dog could still smell them. lol. I offered our bags to the agent to check but she just smiled and moved on down the line. I guess we didn't look like smugglers.  |
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Post by Lexica on Aug 4, 2024 20:54:20 GMT
I always find the shows where they find drugs in really odd places or forms to be really interesting. It just makes me wonder who is sitting around coming up with some of these ideas? The strangest one I saw was when they discovered, I think it was cocaine, mixed into paint cans. And not little hidden baggies of it mixed in with the white paint, but cocaine actually incorporated into the paint. How do they separate that back out on the receiving end? I am not a drug knowledgeable person, but I have to think some of whatever they are hiding the cocaine in has got to still remain when it is sold to the end user. I am thinking of tiny bits of plastic or this paint.
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Post by Lexica on Aug 4, 2024 21:05:16 GMT
It is very interesting! I am glad I had seen it before flying home from Florida one time. I had a small bag of sand from the beach in my purse! Of course they had to take it out and test it. But it was a small airport and they were very chill about it. I hate to think if it had been at a major airport! When I was a teenager, my boyfriend and I had gone with a group of friends to Mexico for a few day on a surfing vacation. One of the beaches had pure black sand and I put some in a baggie to show my mom. When we went the border, the guy asked us what we were bringing back into the states. We had some vanilla and a couple of typical tourist items, and I showed him my little bag of black sand, not knowing if I had broken a law in taking it. He just looked at the sand, smelled it, and handed it back. It hadn’t occurred to me until at the actual border that removing a couple tablespoons of sand might not be legal, but he let us go through without any additional searching or questions. |
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Post by RosieKat on Aug 4, 2024 22:01:51 GMT
I have to think some of whatever they are hiding the cocaine in has got to still remain when it is sold to the end user. I am thinking of tiny bits of plastic or this paint. I think that has to be true, at least some of the time. But I'm not sure that purity of illegal drugs is something the dealers really care about! (And that is part of why I'd never do any "street-obtained" drug - you have no idea what you're actually ingesting.) |
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Turns out that the beagles are the food detection dogs. Dd and I had brought some oranges onto the plane in Paris and fortunately had eaten them on the plane. But the dog could still smell them. lol. I offered our bags to the agent to check but she just smiled and moved on down the line. I guess we didn't look like smugglers. 